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Communication Between Cultures
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Larry A Samovar
Provides students with an understanding and appreciation of different cultures and the practical skills for improving their communication with people from other cultures. The book includes numerous compelling examples that force students to examine their own assumptions and cultural biases. It is divided into four interrelated parts: Part I ...
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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Anne Fadiman (Preface by)
The author tells the story of the Lees, a family of Hmong refugees in California whose epileptic baby daughter, Lia, is taken in hand by the Western medical establishment. The Lees believe that Lia's condition is caused by spirits called dabs, who had caught her and made her fall down. Her doctors want to treat her condition with sophisticated ...
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Culture and psychology
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David Matsumoto
This work focuses on psychological constructs such as intergroup relations, ethnocentrism, and stereotypes to explain diversity-related topics.
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Intercultural Communication in Contexts
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Judith N Martin
This popular text addresses the core issues and concerns of intercultural communication by integrating three different perspectives: the social psychological, the interpretive, and the critical. The dialectical framework, integrated throughout the book, is used as a lens to examine the relationship of these research traditions. This text is unique ...
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Traditions & Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past
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Jerry H Bentley
Over a million students at thousands of schools have learned about world history with the best selling book for the course, "Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past". Using the twin themes of traditions and encounters, the text emphasizes both the distinctive patterns of historical development within individual societies and ...
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree
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Thomas L Friedman
The Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign-affairs columnist for the New York Times examines how globalization has changed the world economy. He examines the benefits of free-market capitalism, and the need to balance local forces (religious, national, and cultural) with international forces. Friedman's book is the result of his unique access to world ...
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Traditions & Encounters: A Brief Global History
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Jerry H Bentley
Based on Bentley and Ziegler's best-selling, comprehensive survey text, "Traditions & Encounters: A Brief Global History" provides a streamlined account of the cultures and interactions that have shaped world history. The text's strong hallmark themes of traditions (the formations and development of the world's major societies) and encounters ...
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Intercultural Communication: A Reader
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Larry A Samovar
This reader is composed of 40 short articles on a broad range of subjects. The first section introduces basic concepts; subsequent chapters contain articles on international cultures, nondominant US cultures, and on contexts of intercultural communication such as negotiation, courtrooms and business. Further chapters develop basic ideas in verbal ...
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Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business 2/E: 2nd Edition
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Fons Trompenaars, Alfons Trompenaars, Trompenaars Fons
As U.S. organizations continue to explore overseas business opportunities, they will be challenged to adapt to the new market's local characteristics, legislation, fiscal regime, sociopolitical environment and cultural system. Riding the Waves of Culture shows international managers how to build the
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The Cultural Dimension of International Business
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Gary P Ferraro
For junior/senior level undergraduate/graduate courses in Anthropology of Business, International Business, Applied Anthropology, International Marketing, and International Management. This is only book that demonstrates how the theory and insights of cultural anthropology can positively influence the conduct of international business. The text ...
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Intercultural Competence: Interpersonal Communication Across Cultures
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Myron W Lustig
Striking a unique balance between skills and theory, Intercultural Competence provides students with the background and confidence to succeed in today's multicultural environment. Blending both the practical and the theoretical, the concrete and the abstract, this textbook is both enjoyable to read and thoroughly researched. By clearly explaining ...
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Ministering Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Personal Relationships
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Sherwood G Lingenfelter, Marvin Keene Mayers, Ph.D.
In Ministering Cross-Culturally, the authors demonstrate that Jesus needed to learn and understand the culture in which he lived before he could undertake his public ministry. The authors examine how this can help us better understand what it means to establish relationships of grace with those from different cultural and social backgrounds. With ...
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The Silent Language
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Edward Twitchell Hall
Leading anthropologist Edward Hall analyzes the many aspects of non-verbal communication amd considers the concepts of space and time as tools for transmission of messages in this fascinating study. The Silent Language is a work of interest to both the intelligent general reader and the sophisticated social scientist.
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Survival Kit for Overseas Living for Americans Planning to Live and Work Abroad
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L Robert Kohls
This handbook provides readers with straightforward information on the potential perils of moving to a new country, such as culture shock, stereotyping, misperceptions and misunderstandings, and provides the tools needed to overcome these obstacles and prepare for a rewarding experience. There is a chapter for families moving abroad which focuses ...
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An Introduction to Intercultural Communication: Identities in a Global Community
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Dr. Fred E Jandt
It is often said that you cannot choose your family, but you can choose your friends. The same notion can be applied to culture in that we do not choose which culture to belong to but are simply born into one, one that shapes our attitudes, our behaviors, and our perceptions. The Fourth Edition of Fred Jandt's text "An Introduction to ...
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Foreign to Familiar: A Guide to Understanding Hot- And Cold-Climate Cultures
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Sarah A Lanier
Foreign to Familiar is a splendidly written, well researched work on cultures. Anyone traveling abroad should not leave home without this valuable resource! Sarah's love and sensitivity for people of all nations will touch your heart. This book creates within us a greater appreciation for our extended families around the world and an increased ...
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Strategic Communication in Business and the Professions
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Dan O'Hair
Designed for introductory business and organizational communication classes, this successful, multi-edition book focuses on helping the reader to master the four essential elements of effective communication--setting goals, knowing the audience, mastering skills, and managing anxiety. The Sixth Edition addresses current challenges to business ...
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Traditions & Encounters: A Brief Global History, Volume II: From 1500 to the Present
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Jerry H Bentley, Herbert F Ziegler, Heather E Streets
"Traditions & Encounters: A Brief Global History", the highly-anticipated concise version of Bentley and Ziegler's best-selling survey text, provides a streamlined account of the cultures and interactions that have shaped world history. With an engaging narrative, strong thematic approach, visual appeal, and solid pedagogy, it offers enhanced ...
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Traditions & Encounters: A Brief Global History, Volume I: From the Beginning to 1500
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Jerry H Bentley, Herbert F Ziegler, Heather E Streets
"Traditions & Encounters: A Brief Global History", the highly-anticipated concise version of Bentley and Ziegler's best-selling survey text, provides a streamlined account of the cultures and interactions that have shaped world history. With an engaging narrative, strong thematic approach, visual appeal, and solid pedagogy, it offers enhanced ...
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Cross-Cultural Connections: Stepping Out & Fitting in Around the World
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Duane Elmer
Duane Elmer offers the tools needed to reduce apprehension, communicate effectively and establish genuine trust and acceptance between cultures while demonstrating how we can avoid being cultural imperialists and instead become authentic ambassadors for Christ.
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Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America
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Lucy R Lippard
Now in paperback, the classic book that defined the multicultural art movement, updated with a new introduction. The New Press is proud to publish a new paperback edition of Mixed Blessings , the first book to discuss the cross-cultural process taking place in the work of contemporary Latino, Native-, African-, and Asian-American artists. Rich ...
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Experiencing Intercultural Communication: An Introduction
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Judith N Martin, Thomas K Nakayama
This introductory text covers the core concepts of intercultural communication and offers students a basic skill-building framework designed to be used every day for communicating across cultures. By using the "building blocks" of the framework in different ways, students will understand the complexities of intercultural interaction and learn ...
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Do's and Taboos Around the World
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Roger E Axtell
The ultimate guide to international behavior now completely updated and expanded! Do's and Taboos Around the World 3rd Edition "Roger Axtell is an international Emily Post." - The New Yorker "Can help you make friends [and] avoid travel trouble." - BusinessWeek "Helpful fun to read " - Steve Birnbaum The first two editions of Do's and Taboos ...
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Multicultural Law Enforcement: Strategies for Peacekeeping in a Diverse Society
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Robert M Shusta, Deena R Levine, Philip R Harris, PhD
For courses in Multicultural Law Enforcement and Special Topics in Policing. MULTICULTURAL LAW ENFORCEMENT now in its 4th edition! This classic is used in criminal justice programs throughout North America - from universities and colleges to police academies and professional development programs in law enforcement. This new edition provides ...
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American Ways: A Guide for Foreigners in the United States
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Gary Althen
In clear language and with numerous examples, this book describes the basic characteristics of American culture: values, style of communication, patterns of thinking, customary behaviours, and underlines how they are different from the ways of other cultures. It then shows how these characteristics are reflected in the many aspects of American ...
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